Singularity Hub
This Chatbot has Over 660 Million Users—and It Wants to Be Their Best Friend
6 min · · Unlike XiaoIce, most of your human friends don’t possess infinite reserves of patience to comfort you if you’re sad or talk about your favorite band. · Shared by 47, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, John Hagel, Thomas Billeter, Arne Keuning, Jonathan Kogan, Ralph Hutter, 瑞拿頭
Forbes
Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People's Faces And Names
2 min · · Shared by 98, including Bernhard Huessy, Thomas Billeter, Jonathan Kogan, Tristan Harris, Pat Kua, Calvin Lee, Daniel Schwarz, Paolo Sinelli, Eric Seufert, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Luca Like, Filippo Boninsegna📡, Thomas Power, Gerd Leonhard, Charles Baldwin, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Yvette Dubel
Forbes
Will This German Startup Win The Translation Game?
3 min · · The Cologne-based company's focus on the quality of their translations (rather than the quantity of languages they have) seems to be serving them well, making DeepL one to watch in the translation… · Shared by 9, including Andreas Goeldi, Thomas Billeter
Nieman Lab
Newsonomics: The New York Times puts personalization front and center — just For You » Nieman Journalism Lab
5 min · · The Times knows its editors' judgment of what's important is one of its critical selling points. But in order to surface more than a sliver of its journalism each day, it's now willing to respond to… · Shared by 73, including Janosch Tröhler, Nieman Reports, Mark Little, Pieter van Diggele, Stephanie A Kowalski, Vincenzo Tremonte, Claudia Sommer, Thomas Billeter, RebelMouse, Lluís Codina
MIT Technology Review
How Facebook’s new blockchain might revolutionize our digital identities
4 min · · The Libra cryptocurrency was unveiled on a wave of hype and speculation. But what its white paper suggested about Facebook’s vision for how we manage our identifying credentials may be just as… · Shared by 51, including Thomas Power, Thomas Billeter, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Ward Plunet, Christopher Allen
MarketingLand
Almost 70% of digital ad spending going to Google, Facebook, Amazon, says analyst firm
1 min · · However, eMarketer revised downward its estimate of Amazon's share of e-commerce from nearly 50% to 38%. · Shared by 21, including Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Billeter, Eric Seufert
The Guardian
Streaming TV is about to get very expensive
4 min · · With Disney, Apple and others about to launch their own services, a lot of your favourite shows are likely to vanish behind paywalls. The golden age of streaming is over · Shared by 60, including Thomas Billeter, Howard Getson, Josep M. Ganyet, mrbrown
The New York Times
Would You Pay $30 a Month to Check Your Email?
5 min · · One of Silicon Valley’s buzziest start-ups, Superhuman, is betting its app’s shiny features are worth a premium price. · Shared by 117, including Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Martijn, Bill Trenchard, Kunal Bhatia, Ed Sim, scott belsky, Chris Messina, Charles Baldwin, Scott Williams, Thomas Billeter, Bram Kanstein, Brian Solis, Stewart Alsop
bondcap.com
Internet Trends 2019
· Mary Meeker, June 11 @ Code 2019 · Shared by 176, including Oriol Farré, Jeff Chang, Anita Zielina, Roland Sailer, Thomas Power, Johannes Haus, Jonathan Kogan, Dominik Grolimund, Parv 🚢 🌊, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Neha Narkhede, Lluís Codina, Mark Kaigwa, Christian Hartmann, Chris Messina, Esther Schindler, Johannes Lenz, Katja Evertz, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Ha Duong
Vox
Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet
3 min · · Here are all the slides, plus analysis. · Shared by 226, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, RebelMouse, Hampus Jakobsson, Claudia Sommer, Dominik Grolimund, Richard MacManus, Rand Fishkin, Gabriele, Matt Navarra, Thomas Power, Marie-Christine Schindler, Mark Kaigwa, Jessica Gioglio, ThousandEyes, Su Franke, Mathew Ingram, Ouriel @Zengo, Klaus Eck, Builtvisible, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦